Contemporary Clinical Trials
June 2017
Cynthia R Gross, Maryanne Reilly-Spong, Taehwan Park et al.
Patients with progressive kidney disease experience increasing physiologic and psychosocial stressors and declining health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We conducted a randomized, active-controlled, open-label trial to test whether a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program delivered in a novel workshop-teleconference format would reduce symptoms and improve HRQOL in patients...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
June 1, 2017
Amishi P. Jha, Joanna E. Witkin, Alexandra B. Morrison et al.
43 citations
Periods of persistent and intensive demands may compromise working memory (WM) and increase susceptibility to distraction. We investigated if mindfulness training (MT) may mitigate these deleterious effects and promote cognitive resilience in military cohorts enduring a high-demand interval of military training. To better understand which aspects of MT programs are most beneficial, three...
June 1, 2017
Edward J. Brantmeier, Cathryn Molloy, J. Byrne
This article offers an exploratory case study of a program for faculty that blends contemplative practices, scholarly productivity, and renewal of faculty as writers at a retreat in a natural setting. We share faculty learning outcomes, logistics, a retreat agenda, and evaluation data from four writing renewal retreats conducted over two years to present initial insight into a contemplative...
International Journal of Advanced Scientific Technologies in Engineering and Management Sciences
June 1, 2017
Jai Paul Dudeja
33 citations
The word 'Meditation' comes from the Latin root "meditatum", which means "to ponder". Meditation is a technique for resting the mind leading to peace, happiness, bliss, and self-realization. There are a large number of meditation techniques in the world.
Contemporary Buddhism
May 31, 2017
Eran Laish
1 citation
The Buddhist vision of liberation is intimately related with an experiential state that transcends intentionality, temporality and causality, owing to its non-directed, unchanging and unconditioned nature. As such, this vision reveals a novel mode of non-dual awareness, which is not divided into perceiving subject and perceived objects. In order to directly recognise this mode, several Buddhist...
May 31, 2017
자비명상은 자기 자신으로부터 시작하여 다른 사람들에게 자애와 연민의 마음을 불러일으키는 수련법으로 근래 다양한 치료적 장면에서 많이 활용되고 있다. 한편 수치심은 부정적 자기개념을 포함하는 무의식적이고 암묵적인 정서라고 알려져 있다. 수치심은 자기에 대한 부정적 평가를 포함하고 있기 때문에 자비명상 중에 수치심이 높은 사람들은 자신에 대한 자비의 마음을 불러일으키기 어려워한다는 주장이 제기되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 수치심의 이런 특징이 자비명상수련 대상에 따라 어떤 영향을 주는지를 살펴보았다. 이를 위해, 자비명상을 자애명상과 연민명상으로 나누어 두 개의 실험을 실시하였다. 실험 1은 자애명상 실험으로서 참가자(N = 108)들을 자기를 대상으로 한 자기-자애 처치와 긍정적 타인을 대상으로 한...
Mindfulness
May 30, 2017
Meagan J Brem, Ryan C Shorey, Scott Anderson et al.
Approximately 31% of men in treatment for a substance use disorders (SUD) engage in compulsive sexual behavior (CSB). Shame, a well-documented consequence of CSB, increases the likelihood of relapse following treatment for SUDs. Despite the risk of relapse, prior research has not investigated factors that may attenuate the relation between CSB and shame. Dispositional mindfulness is one such...
Mindfulness
May 29, 2017
Barbara L. Fredrickson, Aaron J. Boulton, A. Firestine et al.
The purpose of this study was to uncover the day-to-day emotional profiles and dose-response relations, both within persons and between persons, associated with initiating one of two meditation practices, either mindfulness meditation or loving-kindness meditation. Data were pooled across two studies of midlife adults (N = 339) who were randomized to learn either mindfulness meditation or...
Mindfulness
May 25, 2017
Moitree Banerjee, Kate Cavanagh, Clara Strauss
86 citations
In order to increase the cost-efficiency, availability and ease of accessing and delivering mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), clinical and research interest in mindfulness-based self-help (MBSH) interventions has increased in recent years. Several studies have shown promising results of effectiveness of MBSH. However, like all self-help interventions, dropout rates and disengagement from...
Trials
May 25, 2017
Alvaro Ignacio Langer, Carlos Schmidt, Rocío Mayol et al.
42 citations
BACKGROUND: According to the projections of the World Health Organization, 15% of all disabilities will be associated with mental illnesses by 2020. One of the mental disorders with the largest social impacts due to high personal and family costs is psychosis. Among the most effective psychological approaches to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders at the world level is cognitive...